Knockbaron

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Knockbaron, from 2,344 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres) to 182,399 m² (18.24 ha, 45.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Knockbaron in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  of an existing telecoms compound together with associated equipment and fencing and, Permission to replace the existing 18 metre monopole telecommunications support structure with a new 27metre multi-user monopole telecommunications support structure, carrying antenna and dishes together with associated ground equipment cabinets and associated site works.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 22195

• 19 Jul 2017Conditional

  of the development consists of an existing 22 metre high telecommunications support structure, antennas, equipment container and associated equipment within a fenced compound. The development forms part of Vodafone Ireland Limited's existing GSM and 3G Broadband telecommunications network. Previous Planning Reference No. 09/2275.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 171064

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Knockbaron.

Recorded monuments

• GA106-182001 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland. This is the S example of two small circular enclosures (diam. c. 10m), possibly ring-ditches, that are visible on satellite imagery (© Apple Maps). They were identified and reported to the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère. A levelled field boundary running roughly ENE-WSW cuts across the S half of it. The second example (GA106-182002-) is visible on the imagery c. 54m to its NNW. The following image has been uploaded: GA106-182001-_01.jpg Apple Maps Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 September 2020

• GA106-182002 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland. This is the N example of two small circular enclosures (diam. c. 10m), possibly ring-ditches, that are visible on satellite imagery (© Apple Maps). They were identified and reported to the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère. The second example (GA106-182001-) is visible on the imagery c. 54m to its SSE; see the latter record for photographic image. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 September 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Knockbaron.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Knockbaron, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Knockbaron.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Knockbaron with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Knockbaron · Cnoc Barúin

Area

1,126,679 m² (112.67 ha, 278.41 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeen, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Loughrea Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

898 people lived in 307 households in the Loughrea Rural electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydoogan, Carrowmore, Kilmeen, Rafarn, Srahdoo, Traskernagh

Placenames

Knockbaron on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.